The site for ranting and reporting by John Masters
The following letter was faxed yesterday to the campaign headquarters of Senator Bill Nelson. Today, I received an email from the office manager there saying she intended to put the letter in his nightly reading box. Let me know what you think.
Read moreThe Denver Channel: An award-winning Texas art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude
Read moreI can’t seem to get my copy of The Gay Agendaâ„¢, but the Republicans sure can get a theme going
Read moreI guess you might think I’m doing a parody, but you’d be wrong. So help me, the Republican Congressional Leadership is spinning so hard right now, I think they have made themselves dizzy. In one of the most bizarre “spins” of this whole Foley episode, House Speaker Denny Hastert has managed to blame it all on “terrorists.”
Read moreBuried amongst the untold affronts to the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the very spirit of America, the torture bill contains a definition of “wrongfully aiding the enemy” which labels all American citizens who breach their “allegiance” to President Bush and the actions of his government as terrorists subject to possible arrest, torture and conviction in front of a military tribunal.
Read moreWe’ve heard the rhetoric before. Republicans are repackaging their “tough on crime” speeches as “tough on terror” and complaining that
Read moreWell that’s a unique argument, even from the always-creative Bush administration. You see, Osama’s goal is to bankrupt us –
Read moreI am planning a post today with my thoughts on yesterday’s fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. However, I came
Read moreWhat Bush is doing in the run-up to the midterm elections is a disgrace equal to any other scandal of his nasty, incipiently despotic, regime. Using the hallowed anniversary of 9/11, he has demanded Congress pass a law that enables the major terrorist suspects, until now held in CIA secret prisons all over the world, to be transferred and tried at Guantanamo.
Read moreWho’s ahead in promoting Tom DeLay’s market-based legislative techniques? Is it Ohio’s Bob Ney, Bob Taft and Ken Blackwell, or is Florida whack-job Kathering Harris leading the way?
Read moreMy sister had her second baby this morning. Cassie Elizabeth Hendricks was born around 8am. She’s 8lbs. 2ozs. and 25 inches long.
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